SPINE PATIENT RESOURCES

Beware!
If you are a patient, and seek for trustable medical information
related with your spine problem, be cautious about the information
found on the web. There are few scientific study on the quality of
health-related information on the web, and all the studies report that
the quality is questionable. For example, Li and colleagues (Spine
2001;26:545–557) reported that "most
back pain-related web sites can be classified as advertising. The
quality varied considerably, resulting in difficulties for patients to
find useful information in this field. The increasing number of people
seeking medical information on the Web creates a need for more high
quality sites".

Therefore, the ScientificSpine.com offers no guarantee about the soundness of the health information
at the following websites. However, those are relatively well-organized
and well-maintained websites than those of many others.